Privacy Policy

What Playrivo stores

The Playrivo database holds one account row per connected Steam account, plus a cached copy of the most recent recommendations. Specifically:

• Your SteamID — the public numeric identifier of your Steam account.
• Your Steam display name and avatar URL, as returned by Steam.
• Login timestamps: when the account row was created and when you last logged in.
• Your most recent computed recommendations (a cache, so picks don't have to be recomputed on every visit).
• Your “AI recommendations” on/off preference from Settings.
• Your optional hardware preference from Settings — CPU/GPU brand, RAM tier, operating system, Steam Deck / Steam Machine / VR — only if you entered one.
• Nothing else. Your library itself — games, playtime, achievements — is fetched live from Steam on each request and is NOT stored in our database.
• Steam charts snapshots are global: aggregate public player counts, not personal data and not linked to you.
• All of it is stored in the European Union: the application and its PostgreSQL database run on OVH hosting in the Gdańsk region (Poland). Steam data is not copied or processed outside the EU.

Steam login

Signing in works through Steam OpenID: the login form appears on steamcommunity.com, not on Playrivo. Playrivo never receives, sees or stores your Steam password or any other Steam credential — it only receives the public SteamID of the account you logged in with, confirmed by Steam.

Where data leaves the system

When a recommendation set is generated and the “AI recommendations” preference is on, a minimized subset of your library data — game app IDs, names, genres and playtime in minutes — is sent over HTTPS to a third-party AI provider (OpenRouter). No personal identifiers (name, avatar, SteamID, email) are included. If you turn AI recommendations off in Settings, recommendations come purely from the deterministic engine and nothing is sent to any AI provider. The game data shown to you (prices, reviews, achievements, charts) is fetched from Steam's public APIs; your library data is not persisted, so none of it is stored on our side.

Processors (subcontractors)

Playrivo runs with the help of a small, fixed set of processors — companies that process data on our behalf:

• Valve Corporation (Steam Web API) — processes the public library and achievement data you chose to expose on your Steam profile, so that Playrivo can read it for you.
• OpenRouter AI — processes the free-text queries you type and generates the short recommendation reasons. Typed queries are sent to this processor; no Steam credentials are ever sent to it.
• OVH — hosts the Playrivo application and its database in OVH’s Gdańsk region (Poland), inside the EU.
• TikTok (TikTok Technology Limited / TikTok Pte. Ltd.) — handles the TikTok account you connect and the video you choose to publish: open_id, display name, avatar, and the access/refresh tokens that keep the connection working. Tokens are stored in our EU database; nothing else is read from your TikTok account.

Store partners (affiliate links)

Offers link to official, authorized game stores - our store partner is IndieGala. When you click an offer link, you leave Playrivo and go straight to that store — its own privacy policy applies there. Playrivo does not transfer your data to the stores: a click is only a redirect, and nothing about you is attached to the link.

Cookies

Playrivo uses exactly one strictly necessary cookie: playrivo_session — the signed login session that keeps you signed in (HttpOnly, necessary for login). The only other cookie is playrivo_locale, which remembers which of the five interface languages you chose. There are no analytics, tracking or advertising cookies of any kind, so no cookie banner is needed.

Your rights

You have the right of access and the right to erasure (RODO/GDPR), and both are self-service in Settings → Data & privacy: “Download my data” exports every row stored about your account as JSON, and “Delete my data” erases them immediately. No email is needed — your signed-in Steam session is the proof of identity.

Retention

Data is kept while the account exists, i.e. while your Steam login remains connected. When you request deletion, your account row and cached recommendations are deleted immediately. If you log in again afterwards, a new account row is created from your Steam profile — the previous data is not restored.

Contact

The controller of your data is Marcin Domański, Zalasewo, ul. Hebanowa 8B/2, NIP: 7773209527. Questions, requests or complaints about your data: kontakt@marcindomanski.it.